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Hollywood Jesus Movie News 05/31/09
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Visual Review: Up
David Bruce, Webmaster
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When the door to new and uplifting life is opened... WOW!  And that is exactly what this movie is about.  Here is a powerful story of loss, grief, loneliess, and the affirming response to new life.  Here is life, death, and resurrection presented as only Pixar can.

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The Hit List:
10 Films, 10 Hits? Yes, That's the Pixar Story


WALL-E, 2008When Toy Story debuted in 1995, the rules of film animation were re-written, and neither Hollywood nor Disney (!) has been the same since.  

How does Pixar do it? 

"You can't rush art," the repairman tells Woody in Toy Story, a line that is the studio's touchstone. Join us as we take a quick tour through the artistic successes of the films in the Pixar library.

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Featured Interview: Yojiro Takita
Darrel Manson
 
Departures"There's a certain quiet stillness to the entire atmosphere within which the encoffiner has to work," says Takita, director of the award-winning Departures.

"Every little sound felt very fresh. I was struck by how sacred and how beautiful the entire process felt."
 
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New On DVD

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TakenTaken

The Blu-ray Take
Ed Travis

Audiences turned out in droves to see Neeson exact vengeance on his daughter's captors. There is something to the resurgence of Bond, the Bourne phenomenon, and now Taken. We audiences love the illusion of control.

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